IPERION HSIntegrating Platforms for the European Research Infrastructure ON Heritage Science
Technique: Immunofluorescence microscopy (IFM)

Confocal microscope

Zeiss confocal microscope LSM 800 MAT equipped with 405, 488, 561, 638 nm lasers allowing immunofluorescence materials characterisation and topographic analysis.

Potential Results

The tool can be used for imunofluorescence microscopy characterisation of distribution of organic materials in cross sections of samples; topography of surfaces of small fragments that fit to the XY stage of confocal microscope. The related technique IFM provides a positive identification of specific proteins in the removed sample (e.g. there is chicken ovalbumin in the removed paint layer; there is bovine collagen in the sample removed from a glue layer).